Playing the guitar: Francis Rossi plays the shuffle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2011
- Status Quo singer, songwriter and guitarist, Francis Rossi, gives budding rock stars a lesson in how to play the shuffle.
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Had a one on one conversation with Francis, what a nice guy. And yes, the man can play!
I am 37 years old, I was first introduced to him when I was 5....He was a legend then and he still is now
Been a Status Quo fan since 1975 when I saw them with Heart and Kansas at the Michigan Palace theater in Detroit! All of that music for $4.00!
These guys spoke to me, four guys in jeans and tennis shoes, with a shit ton of Sound City amps, playing driven barre chord straight up rock and roll with zero bullshit. I knew right then what I truly wanted to do!
I saw The Quo on their retirement tour at Hammersmith in 1982. They were brilliant! It was the last chance in a lifetime to see them, lol. I've never got the hang of any of their songs, far more complex than most people believe.
He has a sublime sense of rhythm.
One of the most under rated guitarists ever. I got quite excited the other day when I managed to get a ticket for one of the upcoming Hammersmith shows. One chap said to me "oh they only know three chords" to prove your point.
They also know the four chords too
The music press who know nothing about music never ever said anything nice about them. Rossi and Parfitt are 2 of the greatest ever, yet come in for so much flak. They have indeed made a few stinkers like Marguerita Time but always deliver the goods live I saw them during their worst time in the 90's and later when you could see them in smaller venues in Europe and they still kick ass. Even now far from being over the new boy has helped them, so sad that another tour ins unlikely anytime soon.
@@djgaryowens totally agree with you,what also annoys me,is fans on Facebook slating Francis
@@djgaryowens extremely brilliant guitarist listen to him on 4500 times live excellent
@@djgaryowens Marguerita Time if you listen to when he sings "let's have a drink" and there's a little twinkle of Chords on the piano that follows like a nod to the piano blues piano rolls of the south. Nod to their blues roots
Im sure Francis can play Jazz,Funk, Metal riff's and perfect blue's solo's etc. But its the three chord concept that make's the Quo sound. I know loads of bands who only brought 3 chord shapes to the table and if thats your hand of card's? then clever them up with good arrangements. Make it sound tasteful etc then it'll not sound like a bunch of amature's constantly rotating a 12 bar blue's. The Quo are a very excellent and extreamly brilliant live band. Seen them man and boy and could'nt take my eyes off the stage. Glasgow Apollo when i was just a nipper was of the scale. It was truly the Headbangers Ball.
are you sure?
Yes SQ based their SUCCESS on shuffle chords so did Chuck Berry, Stones even the Beatles used shuffle chords in their music Get Back, Come Together, Roll Over Beethoven (CB cover) .. MANY bands use it .. but for a band to achieve such world renowned recognition, playing variations of 12 bar blues is astounding .. I think.
He is eating boiled tortoise in this video.
Every blues band does the same.....why none of the music snobbery towards those artists?
Status Quo came along at just the exact right time for me personally. At high school the "cool" kids all pretended to only listen to albums, not singles, and to NEVER listen to the radio. In fact we had one guy who claimed he'd never heard the Bee Gees sing Massachusetts! There was just no way you COULDN'T hear it in the mid to late 1960s It was played on every radio station and you couldn't go shopping without hearing it in every second shop! Yet Rob (a cooler name than Bob) claimed to have never heard it in his life. I use that song purely as an example of the idiocy coming from the "cool group" back then.
I gotta say, though, that thanks to the cool group I got to hear some mighty fine music. We had our own self-run "radio station" that we set up to raise money for whatever cause we came up with. We had such a great bunch of teenagers that went through high school the same years as me.
I couldn't afford to buy albums, but everyone else seemed to buy every new album by every great band of that time. Everyone also seemed to have a favourite albums band as well. Now in the throw-out bin at a major department store I found Status Quo's first album, the one with Pictures of Matchstick Men. I bought it for $2 in 1969 and kept quiet about that. In 1971 I bought Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon, the ONLY COPY in the whole city! Again, I kept quiet about that. When everyone started talking about their favourite band who only released albums and not singles, I then revealed MY albums only band . . you guessed it, Status Quo. That got me sufficient respect to be admitted into the cool group.
I was starting to learn guitar in 1970/71, and I was that pesky teenager who was always hanging out with actual musicians and getting them to show me stuff. I learned all the open string chords and some barre chords all before I even got my own guitar! I had to wait till January 1972 when I started my apprenticeship, to buy my first guitar, an Aria acoustic. Later in 1972 I got my first electric guitar, a Hofner solid body Strat-type guitar. But my next axe was, of course, a Telecaster!
My parents didn't wanna know about me becoming a guitarist because I had disappointed them by not wanting to be a classical pianist. I hated piano so much that I'd rather bite a finger off than do my practice!
I also developed a life long hatred for classical music too.
But I'd stay up all night with my guitar, practising songs that I already knew how to sing, but needed to work out the chords so I could play and sing at the same time.
I was into Blues even back then, which was unusual to say the least. When the time came to try my hand at lead guitar playing I simply revisited Ma Kelly's and learned the licks Francis Rossi played. I told no one where I was getting them from, just showed up at each informal get-together a bit better and with more variety than the time before. I took my acoustic everywhere with me back then, including to the beach. I had a panel van and it lived in the back with me. Eventually I was able to learn licks by Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Alvin Lee (there's a story there for another time) Eric Clapton, Paul Kossoff, and all the other greats. But as a fledgling beginner, I owed my initial start entirely to Status Quo! All the other guitarists I mentioned just now were too advanced for me to learn anything from them.
Francis Rossi is the perfect mixture of a genious guitar player and Stan Laurel
Best characterisation ever!
I learned to play guitar by listening to Francis. These days I play Judas Priest and Metallica but Francis taught me to play guitar.
FRANCIS is the man! He's been my hero since 1968.
Ditto!!!
Wow, what a span of frets with those long fingers, brilliant. No wonder I could never master the Telcaster ! ( or any other guitar come to that). Seems a really nice down to earth chap too . I agree too that he is a much under-rated guitarist. Two (long ) fingers up to those scoffers who think Quo could only play three chords..
That's what I thought, his hand looks like a big tarantula lol, no way I could spread my fingers like that. If I REALLY practiced I probably could but it'd never look as effortless as that. Long fingers definitely come in handy, no pun intended, for playing guitar
@@melodyvalentine8779 Definitely, huge spider fingers help, i can just about span 5 frets, he is covering six, no way i can do that, Hendrix and SRV also had huge hands, Hendrix could form a chord and at the same time play a moving base note on the low E string with his thumb.
Francis was genetically blessed with extra long fingers, which is priceless when playing a shuffle. If you take notice, his little finger is as long as the third on many of us. How many can comfortably play an F shuffle on the first fret like this man? I can barely reach the 5th with my pinkie.
I've been a fan of Quo since I was little. I think Francis Rossi is a legend, but underrated in my opinion and deserves to be classed as one of the top guitarists
😝
Francis has my ultimate respect for his guitar solo on "whatever you want". Absolute gold and over a very difficult set of chords to follow
Lol!
@@paulakhs Whats so funny
You. Duh
cannot think of a band more underrated, worked their asses off, and stuck with what is good, like ac/dc , respect due.
Under rated? They sell out the largest venues, a huge song book with a fanatic following and minted....I'd like to be that under rated😉😎
@@richardrichard5409 Probably a case of this generation aren't into them as much as the people that have been listening to them since the 70's. I didn't discover Quo until 2009 on TV playing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Now they're my favorite band to listen to and to go see live every year since 2012.
This man is a god to me.He could talk about toilet paper and it would sound cool.I hope he and Rick never stop rocking.
Same...
I can't believe he lost his Brother, over drink
Grande Francis !!!!!!
First guitar lesson I had..the shuffle. A whole career on the shuffle wow!!
Francis has got that Quo! par! de! excellence! that no one else will ever have
that G - A - C gives me shivers every time i hear it.
When BB King plays a single note you immediately recognize it, same with Alvin Lee, When Francis plays a I,IV,V shuffle I know it's Francis. it's His sound. True, anyone can play a shuffle, but to master the timing and technique and feel, takes a lot of practice and effort!
I do love a power chord n alternating 6th, classic blues, great for both pro's and beginners alike 😎
Just brilliant.
So simple so cool i can listen to that for hours!! He's a cool guy huh.
Great maestro !!!!
Haha! Love that jazz bollocks he plays at the end.
this is so fun to play im playing it now
Jazz AT THE END.. Brilliant...
The one and only
the legend francis rossi
King of the twelve bar blues
Unas Bestia para la guitarra me encanta como hace sus combinaciones
They did ever so well out of baby steps 12 bar blues riffs!
A lesson from the master, and some nice Jazz chops at the end there from Mr Rossi
Simple but great 👍👍
Wow, thats just, amazing.....
The best thing ever "invented" on guitar!
Legend
Incredibile come Francis faccia sembrare facile dei riff in effetti molto difficili ( con sole 5 dita ah,ah) Grandissimo!
sounds just like quo did in the 70s,rockin well done
The first gig I ever want to was the final stage of The rocking all over the world record bearing attempt at Wembley. I have to say I was blown away. I remember they were given 2 of Telecasters away by picking seat numbers in a draw, I prayed I would get one but I never did. However Quo remain part of the reason I play guitar. Highly underestimated band, god knows why - but music itself is in debt to them. People say they only play 3 chords? - who gives a shit- they still smashed the lyrical content to compliment the guitars.
People who say Quo are not worthy, I say they don't have a clue about what these guys did for music.
Sorry for correct myself it was the four gigs in 12 hours. What an honor it was to be there.
The length of his fingers! 😱😂
@Razor61289 yes for sure, love the man. Thanks for the upload
He has the advantage of an extraordinary long pinky finger!
All his fingers are longer than average. It's pretty difficult for the rest of us to play barred shuffle chords without sounding mushy, especially low on the neck. Rossi plays "Caroline" while in the bottom F......
Dan 57 Yeah, it's madness. I have I guess average-sized hands/fingers and F# is the lowest bottom E root note I can play the shape on, while sounding bad. I have to get to G# or even A before I can play it perfectly without discomfort.
E: Yep, just tried playing Caroline on F1; it sounded shit and now I have sore fingers. Thanks!
Another advantage I'm sure they have, their guitar necks and frets must be as close to 100% perfect as possible. IE...strings almost sitting on the frets with no buzzing anywhere up and down the neck. Once, about 30 years ago, I was handed a guitar like that to try in a shopping mall music store. A Yamaha, that was so buttery with flawless ultra low action, I almost didn't need my right had to pick. A true freak of nature. @@e-knockpower7808
Dan 57 Yeah. There's not much *good* info out there on their setups. A lot of speculation but I've never figured out with any certainty even basic info like what pups they use(d) (RIP Rick).
I'm sure Rossi's guitar has a very low action. Not sure about Rick's. With his railroad gauge strings, you'd think he would have a low action too but the man was a fucking rhythm robot so it really wouldn't surprise me if he favoured a slightly higher action as well.
Interesting story about the Yamaha. I recently grabbed a beautiful secondhand three-pickup Tele to use primarily for Quo, figuring I could get the best range of both guitarists' tones out of 5 permutations. But I'm really in need of good info on their setups and pup configs.
I'm already regretting the purchase somewhat since one of the threads was hanging over at the bottom and catching on my hand on every pass so I filed it down but accidentally took out a fair chunk of the neck with it. That'll teach me for buying a secondhand guitar without inspecting it IRL! I always thought the anti-MIM crowd were making a fuss over nothing but I'm forced to reconsider.
He had his fingers extended when he was 13 fact .
ONE MORE FROM THE ROAAAAAAD !!!!! QUO FOREVER
At last I have finally found another electric guitar player that rests his guitar on his left leg like me I thought I was a freak for all these years
Wie eine Maschine- herrlich!
I learned the boogie from Francis and most definitely the whole quo
Un grande de verdad👏👏👏🎸🎼🎩
The cover band I played bass in closed every pub gig with a Quo ish Rockin' All Over World. Drunk middle age would women fly out of their chairs to dance. Got em moving. Status Quo played/ plays unpretentious blues based rock with immaculate rhythm. I wonder whether Millennials will passionately remember in 2070 any music being made now?
Why do boomers always resort to point scoring? Are you guys insecure?
That's a John Fogerty song...
@@Meddled no, but you’re young and annoying.
.....and need to pay your dues!
Correct
Fair comment. I do wonder though.
These guys need to come to Chicago...beer is one me!
Спасибо.Поклон.
This dude came to my college
Just effortless, makes you sick 😉
Gran gitarista y gran culto a la amistad 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Gods never die 🖖🏻❤️
oh heck i love him hah
Francis, you are the Guitar Dude. :)
Playing those barred shuffle chords are certainly easier when you've got fingers like Rossi......they look to be about 1/4 longer in length than the average. Plus, having a quality guitar that allows the strings to be practically laying on the frets without significant buzzing.
A little bit of work and your guitar will have a low action. Look on you tube or get a set up done at your local guitar shop 👍👍
where can i find him and tell him that he rocks
The late bit of "Umleitung" rings in my memory when he plays 0:28
Fantastic. Made millions on 3 chords. You got to respect them
What I would give to have hands like those. Great player too.
Vox AC 30. He always uses for rehearsal, studio, demo's. Parfit the same, although Parfit does use a small Marshal on occasions.
Wenn es diesen Shuffle nicht gäbe hätte Status Quo den wohl erfunden, wohl kaum eine andere Band hat daraus so viel gute Musik gezaubert.
Francis rules !!!!!
That three pickup configuration looks interesting, would be good to hear what sort of sounds it would produce.
this is lovley what kind of the amp is he play on
Люблю тебя Френсис
Hi Fracis i'm Mexican ando I Love your Music what's Up From Orange County California
YOU ARE "TEACHERS OF ENGLAND" Up Status Quo! Since Mexico!
That sound is the theme tune of my childhood, my dad was a blues guitarist and a very good one. It looks mad how easily his fingers all spread out like that. My little hands wouldn't look anything like that if I tried this. I just strum, I can't play riffs and stuff, not yet anyway. I don't know if I ever will take advanced lessons to learn all this, maybe when I've got absolutely everything down in terms of open chords and barre chords. Picking just throws me but I'd love to be able to play something like Layla by Eric Clapton, that iconic riff will probably be what pushes me to play in a different style to normal.
but he only plays same tune all the time
@@paulkenney700 haha lol the same tune? No he doesnt 🤣
EL MEJOR
Brilliant.
Rick Parfitt, John Coghlan, Alan Lancester and Mike Rossi, best Rockband of the World.
Of course FOREVER.. 🕶️🇲🇽✌️🍺🎸
Thats all well and goode however its the eyebrows ... is that on the one or technically should there be an eyebrow move on each bit of the shuffle and something unique for the turnaround?? Im so confused my eyebrows just twitch.
lol--lovely guy..a legend just like razor wrote.
Молодец Френсис Росси!!!
cheers to mr.rossi,awesome live with the quo.
❤️
That, my friends, is how to play the entire back catalogue of Status Quo in 2 minutes!
It was the first thing I learned to play when I was young... but I didn't progress much from there. 😄
I´ve heard so many guitarist´s slag Francis off but i reckon he has always been great value and i love most of his solos.
Long fingers! he can reach that 6th fret! I struggle!
I noticed that too. My fingers are short compared to his.
Me to m8
I wish I could, my little pinky is a curse.
The Telecaster is a great instrument, but when you get near the the bridge the flange bit gets well in the bloody way of the pick.,!
hau is the finger positions on the fret bord to play shuffel
BASIC ROCK,do me a favour,love to be able to play like that,gort my ticket to Hammersmith friday 15 march,anyone else going that day???
He's got alien hands - look at the length of his little finger! Yes I'm jealous. ;)
That is the longest pinky I've ever seen in my life.
frame is....GOD!!!!
❤❤❤
ABSOLUTE LEGEND :D
Ok,the master
What really helps, is having long fingers, which Francis has, you can tell by the video. Most players have average size hands, which makes it harder to play certain shuffles and or where you really have to stretch your chording hand.
The video ratio is wrong - he does not have have such amazingly long fingers ...
Anyone who plays piano and or keyboards and or guitar i play both, my hands are average to small so i can't stretch for certain chords, the video ratio?? may be wrong but it still looks like he has longer than usual fingers, which will always help to play that style of playing and or certain jazzy chords which really stretch your hands
you right my friend that's why I use a capo on some chords and it's make it easyer!! and also I'm a big fan of Albert Collins so....
Another idea is to tune your guitar to drop-d. That helps a lot for the shuffle. Especially if you have average finger size.
john elton yeah he is spanning six frets on some of this which looks like his hand is deformed
he's bloody Gorgues francis rossi is. he always was.
He did a nice little Jazz thing at the end and they cut it out. ;)
There are so many music styles based on 3 chords. Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Rockabilly, Country, Zydeco, Tex mex, Pubrock, even early Soul, Hardrock and Punk!
It's not only the Quo, most of the greatest artists on earth wrote or played songs based on 3 chords. Some examples: AC-DC's Whole lotto Rosie, Led Zeppelin's Rock 'n' Roll, Queen's Tie your mother down, Beatles' Get back, Beach Boy's Surfin USA, Elvis' Little Sister, Johny Cash's Walk the line, Eagles' Already gone, Door's Roadhouse Blues, Tina Turner's River Deep Mountain High, Bryan Ferry's Let's stick together, David Bowie's Jean Jeanie, CCR's Traveling band, Rolling Stones' Respectable, Bruce Springsteen's Pink Cadillac, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet home Alabama, ZZ Top's Gimme all your lovin', Foreigner's Dirty white boy, Iggy Pop's Real wild child, Ramones' Sheena is a punk rocker, Dire Straits' Walk of life, Stealers Wheel' Stuck in the middle with you, Clapton's Lay down Sally, JJ Cale's Call me the breeze, Stevie Ray Vaughans Love struck baby, The Blasters' Marie Marie and so many more.
Like Francis demonstrates, the pinky is an essential part of shuffle playing, It gives so much more energy to the chords and when you play it faster it really rocks! Nick Lowe called it the monkey beat. There are not many guitar players who can play it right. It's real hard working guitar playing! Kudos to Rossi and Parfitt, the Vaughan Brothers, Dave Edmunds and of course the inventor mister Chuck Berry!
Стейтъс жулят здраво!
Man can play